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- From: brydon@ASLVX1.SLB.COM (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
- Subject: Re: disabling extensions: extension manager
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.144847.20754@slcs.slb.com>
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- References: <1hn1ccINN90h@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>,<1992Dec29.155209.16121@tdb.uu.se>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 14:48:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.155209.16121@tdb.uu.se>, bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats
- Bredell) writes:
- >Peter Bell (bell-peter@yale.edu) wrote:
- >: In article <1992Dec23.141811.11598@tdb.uu.se> Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se writes:
- >: >Noam G. Nudelman (P88038@BARILVM.BITNET) wrote:
- >: >:
- >: >: Hi,
- >: >:
- >: >: I am interested in changing some system extensions so that
- >: >: when I hold the Shift botton down while booting, they will NOT be
- >: >: disabled.
- >: >:
- >: >: Any help will be appreciated.
- >: >
- >: >As far as I know, it's (almost) impossible. Apple has made it with the
- >: >Tune-Up by adding a driver that loads the INIT somehow, but it's tricky.
- >:
- >: yeah, as far as I know, the only solution is to use the extension manager
- >: control panel (at sumex, et al.) to select a group of extensions to
- >: enable at startup, disabling the rest. It works quite well.
- >
- >Yes, but this won't solve the problem. If you hold down the shift key, the
- >system won't load any extensions at all.
- >[...]
-
- Two suggestions that I think do what you want.
-
- (1) If you want some extensions to load and not others, move the ones you
- don't want into a temporary folder.
-
- (2) While holding down shift disables all extensions, many (but alas, not all)
- extensions allow you to set another key (caps lock, control, option, command,
- or combinations of these) that disable that particular extension. Why not set
- all of these but the one you want to disable themselves with (say) the option
- key? I would avoid option/command and shift...
-
- Any reason why one of these two things won't work for you?
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